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California's highest-ranking state public health official gave the keynote address at the event celebrating the vital role of public health research and practice during difficult times.

Maite Medina, a registered nurse and UCLA Fielding School graduate student, has received the 2026 Levin-Gordon Executive MPH Scholarship.

UCLA Fielding graduate student Trishna Singh to receive the 2026 EMPH Lee Thomassen Healthcare Finance Fellowship.

Dr. Rebecca Delafield, whose research aims to fill the substantial gaps in maternal and perinatal health research in order to improve health and healthcare outcomes for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, has been appointed the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

The New York Times interviewed Dr. David Eisenman, a physician and professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about reductions in federal funding for research into preventing school shootings.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Kathryn Leifheit, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Dr. Randall Kuhn, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about their research into climate change and homelessness, including during the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires.

Four recently published studies, led by UCLA Fielding researchers Dr. Kathryn Leifheit and Dr. Randall Kuhn, highlight the role of climate change and displacement on homeless populations across the United States, including in Los Angeles County.

The Los Angeles Daily News quoted Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, and Dr. Paul Hsu, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about their research into U.S. Latinos and the American economy.

CBS News interviewed Dr. Alison Gemmill, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, about U.S. fertility rates and parental demographics.

UCLA Fielding's Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and Dr. Paul Hsu are among the co-authors of the "2026 Latino GDP Report," produced by the Center for the Study of Latino Health & Culture at UCLA and the Center for Economic Research & Forecasting at California Lutheran University.

Politico's E&E News interviewed Dr. Kathryn Leifheit, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about recent research she co-authored that finds climate change is a top factor in year-to-year homelessness spikes in the United States.

The Los Angeles Times interviewed Dr. Randall Kuhn, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about conflicts over housing, including both for seniors and for in-patient treatment centers, in Los Angeles.